[Python] Why learn Python ??

"Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<ALMNb.11700$1e.231 at newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>...

JanC:

But Netscape was largely based on Mosaic anyway; being developed by thesame developers. The beta I was talking about above still has a Mosaiclogo. ;-)

While it had many of the same developers, as I recall, none of the code wasshared. They were planning to call it Netscape Mosaic but that waschanged before the final release.

It was actually called Mosaic Netscape for a time since the companywas originally called Mosaic Communications Corporation. Visithttp://www.mcom.com and see where it takes you! (Completely work safe,I might add.) Now that's what I call long term domain name assetmanagement!

There seemed to be some fairly major differences between laterreleases of Mosaic before NCSA pulled it (after licensing it tovarious corporations) and Netscape Navigator - Navigator was threadedeven on Windows 3.1, and was clearly better supported on UNIX, Windowsand Mac. Still, it's amusing to consider Netscape 4.x and earlier ashaving some common heritage with Internet Explorer.

As for Grail, it was certainly a "hot product" in the Python communityin 1995 because of the restricted execution environment which Ievaluated for a project involving mobile software agents. Howpriorities and trends have changed since then! Who would have thoughtthat Microsoft Outlook would be the premier platform for mobile code?;-)